Neighbors Emergency Center in Texarkana, Texas, will begin seeing patients July 5 at 2001 Mall Drive.
Neighbors will "offer medical care in a setting unlike any other emergency center in the nation. The new 8,430-square-foot center-places care services in the front, not the back-of the center, providing a transparent, patient-centric experience," according to a release on PR Newswire.
Patients will be greeted by caregivers at the reception desk at the emergency center for first-sight triage and assessment of patients. Those who are critically ill or injured will be taken directly into treatment rooms, the release states, and examination areas are close by, the release states.
The center will be open 24 hours a day. This is the second Neighbors Emergency Center in Northeast Texas, the other being in Tyler, and represents one of many to open this year in Texas, according to PR Newswire information.
Neighbors' website at nec24.com shows the center accepts most major private insurance plans including those from Aetna, United Health Care, Humana, BlueCross and BlueShield and Cigna. Neighbors does not take Medicare, because Center for Medicare Services "does not yet recognize free-standing emergency departments," the site states.
The website also offers online bill payments.